Chapter 2 Flashcards
There are no perfect indicators of personality;
there are only clues, and clues are always ambiguous.
All we can do is gather as many clues with the resources we have. Which leads us to Funder’s third law:
Something beats nothing, two times out of three.
The main sources of data you can gather for personality are:
SILB or BLIS: Self-reports, Informants’ reports, Life Outcomes, Behavioural Observations.
According to most research the way people describe themselves by and large matches the way
others describe them. The world’s best expert about your personality is probably you.
1st advantage of self-reports: “Wherever you go, there you are”, 2nd advantage: you know how you act in every kind of situation, you know your thoughts, feelings, intentions behind your behaviour
3rd advantage: definitional truth, 4th advantage: causal force, 5th advantage: self reports are simple and easy.
1st disadvantage of self-reports:
Bias. Interestingly, people actually seem to know whether they are positively or negatively biased about themselves, but this knowledge doesn’t get rid of the bias.
2nd disadvantage of self-reports:
Error. Self-judgement can be difficult. Fish don’t know they are wet. Some people are not interested in knowing about themselves.
3rd disadvantage of self-reports:
Too simple and Easy. Probably overused.
Personality traits are inherently evaluative > they help us predict people’s
Behaviour
Continuity is someone’s qualities is known as cons
Consistency
The salient aspects of a person is how we would des
Describe them > description
Personality is a cause of behaviour or influence also known as expl
Explanation or causal force
Definition of personality the system of enduring, inner ch
Characteristics of individual that contribute to consistency in their behaviour
How generalized is your experiment? Ie would you get the same results using a different experiment? This is known as g
Generalizability
Research design
Plan to gather data
